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...memory of Sally Baron, 71, of northern Wisconsin, and Gertrude M. Jones, 81, of Mandeville, La. Obituaries for both women contained requests that money be sent to any organization working for the removal of Bush from office. And in Jefferson County, Colo., West Jefferson Middle School teacher Martha Swisher sparked a furor by wearing a HE'S NOT MY PRESIDENT button on her coat during a sixth-grade field trip. Republicans in Colorado's state legislature honored the family that lodged the complaint; the teacher now wears a lapel pin to class that features an American flag and a peace...
...past three years, a handful of “northern” (meaning everything above the Carolinas) college pitchers were selected in the draft’s first round. Over that same stretch, exactly one northern college position player—former Ohio State first baseman Nick Swisher (No. 16 overall in 2002)—was a first rounder...
Ohio State (12-4-1) boasts even more decorated players, among them preseason Big Ten player of the year Nick Swisher. The first baseman is batting .383 with seven home runs in 16 games so far this season...
...latest troubling chapter in America's drug war. In the summer of 1999, 43 residents of Tulia, Texas - a dry little town of less than 5,000 people in the windswept panhandle - were arrested for dealing cocaine. It was the most ambitious drug sting in the history of Swisher County, and there was great buzz surrounding the bust and self-congratulation among the majority of townsfolk at the time. Now the buzz has turned. The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have become quite concerned that 40 of those 43 arrested were...
...ACLU has filed suit against Swisher County, as well as the sheriff and the district attorney, on behalf of Yul Bryant, a black man who was arrested after apparently being misidentified and whose charges have been dropped. Some of the cases are being appealed, the Department of Justice has been alerted to the problem, the media is on the case and Tulia finds itself in the spotlight - a spotlight that has led to all kinds of grandstanding, manipulation, alliance-forming and hammy acting. In other words, Tulia has become Hollywood. Helping get national publicity focused on the situation is Randy...